True Crime Recaps 2021 -
Herbert Alford was renting a car at the Hertz counter in the capital region international airport near Lansing, Michigan. At the same time, about 20 minutes away, a 23-year-old named Michael Adams was running through the parking lot of a Lansing shopping plaza when he was shot once in the back an killed after an argument over 50 pounds of cannabis. True Crime Recaps: How a Hertz Receipt Saved Herbert Alford From Spending 30 Years in Prison for Murder, Youtube 4.18, 2021
Between June 2015 and November 2016 his lawyer sent Hertz 5 subpoenas and court orders asking them to produce the rental receipts that would exonerate his client, but court records show that the car company didn’t respond so the trial went ahead as planned. ibid.
In December 2016 a jury found him guity of second-degree murder. ibid.
In 2018 Hertz finally found the receipt … He didn’t get out of prison till February 19th 2020. ibid.